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Fall/Winter 2012 beauty trend report: 70 of the best hair and makeup looks and products from New York, London, Milan and Paris!

Our Fall/Winter 2012 beauty trend report covers the makeup, manicures and hairstyles you need to know, paired with the best new products. From the moody colours of Dark Shadows to Wild Side’s super saturated shades and groomed ponytails, we have all of fall’s top looks in one spectacular slideshow. Time to start browsing!

DARK SHADOWS<br />
An ominous cloud has moved in over beauty this season. The references are varied—Lisbeth Salander, Tim Burton, the Addams family—but the end result is beautifully eccentric, with pallid skin, prune-stained lips and hollowed cheeks.<br />
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Giles

THIN EVIDENCE<br />
Fine, volume-deficient hair was the goal rather than the nemesis of hairstylists backstage. Paul Hanlon kicked off the skinny-hair trend at Altuzarra and performed an encore at Proenza Schouler. The polar opposite of a big, bouncy blowout, strands at Victoria Beckham, Christopher Kane and Theyskens’ Theory were also intentionally weighed down with heavy styling products and in some cases surreptitiously thinned out by pinning braided pieces to the head.<br />
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Altuzarra

FRENCH TIPS<br />
Don’t panic, but it looks like French manicures may be making a comeback—we saw them at Topshop Unique and Alexander McQueen. Others avoided the white tip: at Donna Karan, Deborah Lippmann’s beige “Fashion” was topped off with deep ruby “Single Ladies.”<br />
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Donna Karan

THE BROW CONTINUUM<br />
Brows did it all from barely-there to bedazzled. Ethereal, bleached-out brows were predominant at Versace and Prada—it’s been reported that makeup artist Pat McGrath told the models in Milan not to bother dying their eyebrows back after the first bleaching at Gucci. Chanel and Miu Miu opted to go the decorative route, adding eye-catching gemstones and sequins.<br />
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Miu Miu

THE WILD SIDE: EYES<br />
Charlotte Tilbury painted eyes that mimicked birds of paradise at Prabal Gurung, and Pat McGrath applied iridescent hues reminiscent of a beetle or peacock at Roberto Cavalli. In a darker take on the animal kingdom, the eerie makeup at Sally LaPointe was inspired by Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, the story of a man who becomes an insect.<br />
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Roberto Cavalli

BANDS & BANGS<br />
The headband made more than a few cameos. It adorned ’60s beehives at Moschino Cheap & Chic, streamlined the silhoutte at Doo.Ri and was bandeau-sized at Sonia Rykiel.<br />
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Moschino Cheap & Chic